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A comparison of drone imagery and groundbased methods for estimating the exte...
Lesser snow goose (Anser caerulescens caerulescens) populations have dramatically altered vegetation communities through increased foraging pressure. In remote regions, regular... -
Fundamentals of Image Analysis in Google Earth Engine
Cloud-based image processing platforms like the Google Earth Engine (GEE) bring unprecedented possibilities for education, research, and outreach. This workshop will focus on an... -
Automated Fractional Snow Cover Monitoring From Near-Surface Remote Sensing I...
Snow cover is an important variable in both climatological and hydrological studies because of its relationship to environmental energy and mass flux. However, variability in... -
Mapping And Quantifying The Spatial Characteristics Of Agricultural Drainage ...
The purpose of the study is to map agricultural drainage systems (ADS) at the watershed scale using remote sensing and GIS techniques and examine the effect of ADS. For... -
An Evaluation Of Remote Sensing Methods For Ecological Management In Theodore...
This thesis is comprised of four chapters that examine various aspects of remote sensing for ecological management in Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Chapter one reviews the... -
Use Of Landsat Satellite Imagery To Identify The Salinization Of Soil Due To ...
Oil and gas development in northwestern North Dakota, has resulted in the drilling of more than 32,000 wells and produced large volumes of salt water (brine). Brine spills can... -
Applications Of An Unmanned Aircraft Vehicle And Remote Cameras For Studying ...
The midcontinent population of lesser snow geese (Anser caerulescens caerulescens) has increased dramatically since the 1960’s due to changing agricultural practices in their... -
A time-series approach for mapping mountain pine beetle infestation extent an...
. Severe mountain pine beetle (MPB) epidemics can degrade ecosystem services and socioeconomic assets. Mapping outbreak progression provides tools to mitigate damages and... -
Using Landsat 8 data to compare percent impervious surface area and normalize...
This empirical research examines the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and the percent impervious surface area (%ISA) as indicators of urban heat island (UHI)... -
Reconstruct missing pixels of Landsat land surface temperature product using ...
U.S. Landsat Analysis Ready Data (ARD) recently included the Land Surface Temperature (LST) product, which contains widespread and irregularly-shaped missing pixels due to cloud... -
Where is the provenance? Ethical replicability and reproducibility in GIScien...
As replicability and reproducibility (R&R) crises develop within emerging convergent inquiry, ethical use of provenance information is central to the establishment and... -
Assessing topographic controls on vegetation characteristics in Chittagong Hi...
The study aimed at assessing multi-scale correlation between vegetation characteristics and topographic parameters in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), Bangladesh. Traditional... -
The Dynamical Linkage of Atmospheric Blocking to Drought, Heatwave and Urban ...
Atmospheric blocking is a long standing structure stalled in the mid-troposphere which is often associated with extreme weather events such as droughts, heatwaves, flood and... -
Identification and classification of geographically isolated wetlands in Nort...
Due to recent Supreme Court rulings, there has been an increased interest in the isolated wetlands of the United States. These types of wetlands serve vital ecological roles... -
Simulating micro-scale thermal interactions in different building environment...
Tropical cities are more susceptible to the suggested fall outs from projected global warming scenarios as they are located in the Torrid Zone and growing at rapid rates.... -
MI-Environment: Geospatial patterns and inequality of relative heat stress vu...
Heat stress causes morbidity and mortality and is increasing with climate change. Heat stress can pose particular challenges in northern regions not well adapted to heat. To... -
KU Students Wrap Up Course in Aerial Mapping Using Drones
LAWRENCE — Fall break is barely behind us, but a group of University of Kansas students has just finished an innovative eight-week course in using drones to develop aerial maps.... -
A Data-driven Approach for Mapping Grasslands at a Regional Scale
The goal of this research was to use a data-driven approach to develop a regional scale grassland mapping protocol with the following objectives. First, identify and... -
Modeling and Visualizing Ecosystem Services for 3D Urban Planning
This study integrated ecosystem services (ES) and 3D geo-visualization with urban design practices to inform future development in Pocatello, Idaho. Pocatello is a medium-sized... -
From pixel to yield: forecasting potato productivity in Lebanon and Idaho
Idaho and Lebanon rely on potatoes as an economically important crop. NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index), GNDVI (Green Normalized Difference Vegetation Index), SAVI...